Historia mundi:, or, Mercator's atlas
Subtitle: Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke and figure of the world
By: Lately rectified in divers places, as also beautified and enlarged with new mappes and tables; by the studious industry of Iudocus Hondy. Englished by W.S. generosus, & Coll. Regin. Oxoniæ
Contributors: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, editor; Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640, translator; Glover, George, approximately 1618- engraver; Sparke, Michael, -1653, bookseller; Cartwright, Samuel, -1650, bookseller; Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer
Publisher: Printed by T. Cotes, for Michael Sparke and Samuel Cartwright.
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 932
Subjects: English Atlases; Early works to 1800; Political geography
Other titles: Mercator's atlas
Work titles: Atlas
Notes: Translator's dedication signed: Wye Saltonstall.

Added engraved title page signed "G. Glo: inu: fecit". with imprint "London printed for Michaell Sparke, and Samuell Cartwright. 1635."

"Verses on verso of first leaf occur in two settings: one signed 'F. Q[uarles]', the other M. S[parke]' or unsigned."--STC.

Page 905 bears a map of New Spain, a duplicate of that on p. 907. A map of Virginia, printed after the book was issued, is intended to be pasted over it.

A variant of the edition lacks Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint.

Signatures: pi² A⁶ a⁴ chi¹ B-2L⁶ 2M² (M2 + "M3") ²N-²Z⁶ 3A-3H⁶ 3I⁴ (I4 + ²chi¹) 3K-4L⁶ 4K⁶ ( -4K4) 4L-4N⁴ 4O².

Rare Book copy: First two leaves mutilated and repaired, with loss of printer's mark and some text ; additional engraved title page and leaf "The meaning of the frontispiece" wanting ; p. 905 and 907 ( both copies of a map of New Spaine) wanting ; last map of New England before the table wanting

Rare Book copy: Variant with Cartwright's name in the letterpress title page imprint

Rare Book copy: P. 57-58 misnumbered p. 55-56

Rare Book copy: Bound with "The booke of the creation and fabricke of the world" (Leaves B6-F5) which is part of STC 17824.5

STC (2nd ed.) 17824

ESTC, S114540